Soapbox Poet

The Risk Management Shift

Risk management can’t rest on this shift

carrying the weight of all my decisions

like a tipping scale; it’s uneven. Open eyes

are heavy and tiring as the Second watches

the clock, and the Minute follows fast behind.

All eyes on impulse, all lifeboats overboard.

This is my Titanic but this time, my regret

is sinking. Asleep, they watch, one eye open.

We’re mopping decks in my mind.

They’re clear; they’re clean.

The risk management shift can go home now.